What if Nintendo Bought Rare in 2002? – An Alternate History

I’ve always wondered, what if Nintendo bought Rare in the Gamecube era? What would Nintendo’s dire Gamecube release been like? What would Nintendo be like today?

That’s what I’m gonna write about today, in the form of an alternate history document. We can pretend some other universe had all this happen, and imagine the fallout side effects. Good and bad both. But of course, as an alternate universe story, I’m gonna make it kind of best-case scenario. It’s more fun that way.

Introduction: W...